Canada: Hamilton man accused of being a contract hacker for Russian spies

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Mar 16, 2017
Hamilton man accused of being a contract hacker for Russian spies
Karim Baratov, who was born in Kazakhstan, has Canadian citizenship. He was arrested in Ancaster on Tuesday
 By Alyshah Hasham

A 22-year-old Kazakh-Canadian man with expensive tastes is facing charges of identity theft and conspiracy to commit computer fraud in connection with one of the biggest data breaches ever — the theft of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in early 2014.

Karim Baratov, a dual national of Kazakhstan and Canada, was arrested on Tuesday morning at his home in Ancaster by Toronto Police and handed over to the RCMP, according to police spokesperson Mark Pugash.

Baratov is accused of being paid by two Russian spies to break into the email accounts of targeted individuals, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

The two members of the Russian intelligence agency FSB, Dmitry Dokuchaev, 33, and Igor Sushchin, 43, and Russian hacker Aleksey Belan, 29 — who was on the FBI's most wanted cyber criminals list and has been previously indicted twice for computer fraud — are facing more serious charges of criminal espionage, computer hacking and conspiracy-related offences after being indicted along with Baratov by a grand jury in northern California at the end of February.

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